MR: And particularly Tamils. Not only Tamils, and the whole India.

•SG: Right.

MR: In Tamil Nadu, that was the biggest mistake. I mean, in Tamil Nadu they killed him. A man who gave his jacket, this is what I heard, don’t know whether it is correct, gave his personal bullet-proof jacket to this man.

•SG: To Prabhakaran

MR: To Prabhakaran, and he try to bring a solution by introducing thirteenth Amendment to our constitution.

•SG: Which you now honour.

MR: We have one.

•SG: Because you…you were once not happy with it.

MR: Certainly, we were not happy when IPKF came to Sri Lanka.

•SG: Right..Right.

MR: I was also not happy.

•SG: But times change.

MR: I was in the Opposition.

•SG: Yes. Yes. In the Opposition you are never happy.

MR: No, I’ll not…but they were the Government, just I will…

•SG: You had to oppose it.

MR: Yes.

•SG: I call it Oppositionism. It is a strong ideology.

MR: So that was a, at that time, we were opposing. But now we can see, if they, if we allowed the IPKF to stay for another one or two months, they would have finished this.

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